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Hey Guys,
I was just wondering.
Now that Fring and Skype had their falling out and fring removed the ability to make skype calls, is there anyway around it?
I mean Fring/Skype was one of the main reasons why I went Evo instead of iPhone4.
I know they have facetime but thats only on Wifi with other facetimers. For a while there I was in heaven being able to chat with all my skype friends while on the go...
I know there's a skype lite beta in the wild that kind of helps a little but doesn't Verizon Androids have skype?
Do they have the ability to do front facing cam chat?
And if so, can't it be ported to other non verizon phones???
(I know, I'm full of questions. What can I do, I'm a noob at this )
+1, is there an old version of Fring out there with Skype support still in it, a non-Verizon-locked version of Skype, or a hack that can be used? Not having Skype is a bit of a killer for me.
Man and I was wanted to try out Skype!
big bump, any solutions?
Not yet. Maybe once there is a way root 2.2.
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redrazr7791 said:
Man and I was wanted to try out Skype!
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you and me both!
Bumping this thread in hopes of possibly finding an old version of fring that still has Skype integrated.
gudda1 said:
you and me both!
Bumping this thread in hopes of possibly finding an old version of fring that still has Skype integrated.
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I believe they disabled skype support on their server so you can't just get an old version. It most likely won't let you connect to your skype account, given that people were having problems connecting before the skype-less version was released..
I know there is a skype beta app floating around the apps and themes section but it doesn't do video chat.
verizon reserved rights for mobile to skype calls. as far as i know you can only use video chat to other iphones and front facing cameras.
Let say i'm on wifi and have skype, can i use it somehow to call for virtually free other skype contacs?
kmetek said:
Let say i'm on wifi and have skype, can i use it somehow to call for virtually free other skype contacs?
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Yes, thats how Skype works. I have tested this on the Skype Beta App
I tested Skype Beta too, but it actually called up a number for me...
So no free calls yet (for me at least)...
as far as i know there is only skype lite beta available and you can't use voip.
they removed the normal skype app because of some verizon cooperation:
Code:
blogs.skype.com/en/2010/03/skype_mobile_out_now.html
They also removed the Windows mobile version:
Code:
blogs.skype.com/en/2010/02/changes_to_our_mobile_lineup.html
sry, i cant post links here :/
ware can i download any verion of skype for android ? i couldnt find any drove me fruit loopy looking ty afics your links are no good they just link to skype who ask you tp put ya phone number in then send you a link to the mobile version of the site that then tells me theres no version of skype for my phone ami missing somthing ? which i already spent hours going round and round in circles with i truly hate skype. because i have credit friends and family on it, personally hope skype burns so people change.
No Skype version available until Skype makes it available. There used to be fring but they are having issues with Skype at the moment and the only people with true Skype for Android are Verizon customers.
Hello companies, there's a whole world other than America available.
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anyone tried to get the apk file from a verizon phone yet?
matisamd said:
ware can i download any verion of skype for android ? i couldnt find any drove me fruit loopy looking ty afics your links are no good they just link to skype who ask you tp put ya phone number in then send you a link to the mobile version of the site that then tells me theres no version of skype for my phone ami missing somthing ? which i already spent hours going round and round in circles with i truly hate skype. because i have credit friends and family on it, personally hope skype burns so people change.
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as fring has pulled skype integration your best bet is probably nimbuzz, some people swear by it but i never got on with it personally.
i use skype lite as even though it dials a local number i have unltd landline calls on tmo in the uk so it is the same as free for me
Jabbafat23 said:
No Skype version available until Skype makes it available. There used to be fring but they are having issues with Skype at the moment and the only people with true Skype for Android are Verizon customers.
Hello companies, there's a whole world other than America available.
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Umm.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=723759
JohnSteveDoe said:
Umm.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=723759
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sorry but thats skype light, it doesn't use voip, it calls a number
IM+ is going to have Skype support on their next version, currently beta is available (3.0.6), but Skype stays online only 5 minutes (beta limitation only)
So, until next IM+: Fring + Skype Lite + Nimbuzz
I use Fring, you can find it on market. Fring supports msn, icq, skype, +++
i know but can you talk over skype?
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i know but can you talk over skype?
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Yes you can
Fring does not support Skype anymore...http://www.fring.com frontpage says it all, it's banned
mlehtola said:
Fring does not support Skype anymore...http://www.fring.com frontpage says it all, it's banned
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And Skype say they didn't ban Fring. Ho hum :-(
http://blogs.skype.com/en/2010/07/fring.html
In this case, however, there is no truth to Fring’s claims that Skype has blocked it. Fring made the decision to remove Skype functionality on its own.
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Has anyone been able to get sipdroid to connect to the Skype network for voip calls?
I'm not really interested in skype chat, I just want the skype to skype calling.
I changed to Nimbuzz.
It offers a constant Skype VOIP connection.
so you can actually talk/phone?
IM+ 3.x has been released, Pro version ($4.95) seem to work well with Skype and MSN, free version is logging out Skype after 5 min inactivity.
Hello, Newbie to Android world here - receiving my HTC Desire, hopefully, next week.
Just wanted to share some information regarding an application called "LiveProfile" which will soon be released that incorporates BBM for Androids, if im not mistaken.
Anyone heard of it?
Just looked it up and from what I can see its a replacement for bbm. It will work across iPhone, blackberry and android. Basically MSN messenger for phones.
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I've been using a BlackBerry for practically 2 years now and I have to say perhaps the only application that has the BB stand out among its rivals is the BlackBerry Messenger - now with LiveProfile, I'm very excited for the upcoming release of this app.
What's the advantage of this over WhatsApp or PingChat? Those are both multi-platform already, and with WhatsApp there's no need for a user name as it uses your phone number, so anyone in your contacts with the application is automatically in your friend list.
Yeah, why another one? ... PingChat is OK.
I know, competition is good.
But for this kind of app, I just want ONE ...
It seems impossible.
Wait until someone created multi of multi IM of multi IM ...
PingChat is a good one.
MJwitter: well, quite frankly, i believe there is one prime advantage over iphone's Whatsapp in terms of privacy. With "whatsapp" you do not necessarily have to have the contact on your list, just as long as he has your number he is able to send you msgs - which a lot of people would find annoying (you could probably ignore them, im not sure, but its a terrible feature initially)
gogol + lukehluke: i have never heard of ping chat before. i'll have to google it. However, as i have mentioned earlier i believe this application is intended to merge bbm, whatsapp and so on all under one roof - again I am uncertain of this information; however, hopefully this turns out to be the advantage of LiveProfile.
Nonetheless, thank you for sharing that information.
I just checked it out; however it seems to display an error when i clicked on "Join Now." Is this application not yet released?
there are quite a few BBM replacements available. They will never connect to BBM Contacts but provide the same functionality.
1. PingChat
2. Cnectd
3. LucidMessenger
4. Pmessenger
those are all i know of atm.
I'll try ping chat on HTC, just as soon as I get it by next week.
I heard about Pmessenger, but the reviews weren't very good.
Is WhatsApp ever coning out for android?, ive tried to convert a few people over to ping chat but they all use whatsapp
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I'm confused. Help me. What is the differences between pingchat,whatsapp and IM messenger such ebuddy, fringe, and nimbuzz?
LOL try to be patient, my friend.
Ive been trying to do that for the past 24 hrs too. fortunately, a few ppl installed it.
however,they dont need to "convert" to pingchat, ask them to install it and they could use both ;D
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I'm confused. Help me. What is the differences between pingchat,whatsapp and IM messenger such ebuddy, fringe, and nimbuzz?
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Pingchat and Whatsapp? call themselves 'SMS Replacement' apps. Wherein they act like BBM so you can send a message whether a person is online or offline. These apps can only be used between their respective clients i.e. Pingchat-to-Pingchat, Whatsapp?-to-Whatsapp?
IM clients connect through AIM, MSN, Facebook &c.
Whatsapp Beta works. Google up Whatsapp android beta and youll find a download link on a facebook page. Install it and then you may get authorization error just wait like 1 day and try again and it will work. Been working well cant find any bugs with it yet.
I tried what you said but only info seems to say the beta is only available for people living in san fansisco and whatsapp put the app on your phone from there office?, cant seem to find a download link or apk file, if you have a link can you post it or reply to me with a pm to the link please, thanks.
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Ok i found it
http://beta.whatsapp.com/WhatsApp.apk
It installs fine but doesnt seem to work as you need to register to be a beta tester.
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yea like i said install it it will fail just wait and try again tommorow and it will start working. lots of people have reported success after waiting a while
Cool, i'll update in a day or 2 if its working, did you email them to request to be a beta tester or just try it after a few days and it worked without emailing them?
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Didn't send an email
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Cool, its started working.
Ok, my quick review - pingchat vs whatsapp
Its alot faster than pingchat in terms of messages being delivered, sometimes pingchat lags a very long time and also pingtchat soelmetimes doesnt give notifications unless you open the app, so whatsapp wins on those two.
But pingchat has a MUCH better look and feet to it, and it works on phone numbers & ID's so you can use either, but whatsapp only works over phone numbers, so unless i have the persons phone number i cant message them on whatsapp, but on pingchat you can just use there id and dont need there phone number so pingchat wins on that.
So both have goods & bads, ping chat is free though which is a plus, if you check in the account info in the whatsapp beta, it says it expires in November 2010, so i asume thats when it goes live in the android marketplace, it also has an upgrade option so it will definatly be a paid app when its released and have a limeted free use period
More people use whatsapp so its better "at the moment", but pingchat has a much better feel to it, so hopfully more people start using pingchat.
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I know there's already a IM+ thread but by posting there some people might miss the information.
v1.4 has been submitted to Microsoft and should hit very soon. It adds the following features:
- Significantly improved contact list scrolling and overall application performance
- Push-to-Email option allows incoming messages to be forwarded to your email
- Autoreply feature will instantly notify your contacts that your are in Push mode
- ICQ / AIM / AOL / iChat group chats
- ICQ contacts can now be added into your AOL/AIM/iChat contact lists and vice versa
- VKontakte and Yandex IM services are now supported
However Microsoft has requested the removal of MSN/WLM from the app .
I know it will be redundant with Mango but fact of the matter is Mango hasn't been released yet so that's really ridiculous.
So there's your Sophie's choice: update to v1.4 to get the new features or decline the update to keep MSN/WLM.
Info taken from IM+ facebook page.
Or Mango is really close (;
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Or Mango is really close (;
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Well even if that was the case that doesn't make right for 2 reasons:
1) Mango will come after the IM+ update in any case and even if Mango was released tonight some people might have to wait for one or two months to get. In the meantime, being able to use MSN/WLM on IM+ would be fair.
2) What about consumer's choice? It's like Google banning you from using any RSS reader because they already offer you Google Reader. That's really ridiculous.
Yeah, I agree with you.
Still, it's your choice to update or not. Don't update if you really need it.
As long as I can continue to Skype, all is good. Hopefully it'll be a lot faster. Thanks for the info.
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Can someone confirm that WLM still works in the new version 1.4 is you are already signed up for Windows Live in the APP??
Just got the update, there is AOL/AIM/ICQ and iChat group support, though WLM is no longer available.
I'm only using WLM for facebook chat because its better than the web fb chat, and since most of my contacts in WLM doesn't go online too often, I can hold off until mango release.
Someone on a thread said you don't lose WLM if you were already signed in in v1.3, can anyone confirm this?
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Instead of adding new features they should fix the abysmal skype performance (connecting and background connect time). The way IM+ works is near useless at this time.
Peew971 said:
Someone on a thread said you don't lose WLM if you were already signed in in v1.3, can anyone confirm this?
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If you visit IM+'s facebook page, it says there that if you still want to use WLM on IM+ then do not update to 1.4.
Although I was with 1.2 did not receive any 1.3 update so not sure if WLM was in 1.3, but I can confirm that I had WLM in 1.2 and jumped to 1.4, and WLM account is no longer there, and contacts aren't showing up.
http://www.facebook.com/plusim/posts/10150336729461005
i am on Mango and also on IM+ 1.4 AND I HAVE msn/WLM contacts shown there...
That's odd... I don't get it.
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Can't wait for this.
http://mobilesyrup.com/2011/08/29/v...ree-cross-platform-instant-messaging-service/
Samsung is jumping into the ring and coming out with their own messaging service, directly taking aim RIM’s BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) and Apple’s iMessage. “ChatON” is free, global and “works across all major smartphone and feature phone platforms”, so including BlackBerry and iOS. ChatON will first come pre-installed on smartphones that run off Bada or Android platforms this October, but will be “available gradually across all major Smartphones, Tablets, notebook PCs and Samsung feature phones”. As to the features, Samsung states there will be 2 versions available. A basic feature of ChatON has group chat, image/video/music and location sharing. An enhanced version of ChatON gives a few additional options, such as interaction rank, ability to comment on a users profile and the option to send other users an animated message.
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Looks good. I just don't like the name "ChatON"... Doesn't sound right.
Anyway, I will only use it if it becomes available in non Samsung phones (don't know that many people with Sammy phones).
oh wow!!!! this is good.... its like windows live messenger all over again!
What would be the use of yet another chat app? Especially now that both Facebook and Google have robust and well populated chat networks.
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Looks good. I just don't like the name "ChatON"... Doesn't sound right.
Anyway, I will only use it if it becomes available in non Samsung phones (don't know that many people with Sammy phones).
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“works across all major smartphone and feature phone platforms”, so including BlackBerry and iOS."
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What would be the use of yet another chat app? Especially now that both Facebook and Google have robust and well populated chat networks.
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Personally i hate facebook and dont use it for chat, neither do any of my friends. Google talk is only for android. This works across all smartphones.
Although whether it will be better than Whatsapp remains to be seen
I agree Whatsapp is good let`s hope ChatON will be as good or even better.
Do we really need another IM client? I don't like whatsapp Gtalk works well for me.
What about Ebuddy XMS that everyone forgot? I also remember that Samsung included Palringo?? no one used it and is also forgotten. So... why will this succeed?
and Like @elkikin said the name isn't right, it doesn't sound good. I also don't like the profile page and that people can comment on it, it's trying to combine messaging and social network?
there also Kakatalk !
This seems pretty good there's a pr video and seems fine. But will it be too late,whatsapp has a good market and most my friends use it. Live Profile to me is a failure. Samsung need to make sure that all phones now come with this pre installed like berries have with BBM if it wants any chance. BBM will still remain the king of chat as it's simple and works fantastically well (ex BB user), in the UK anyway most teens are never off BBM including my sister for solely that reason she doesn't want to move to another phone!
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Subah said:
there also Kakatalk !
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There to many to name name them all.
nikzDHD said:
This seems pretty good there's a pr video and seems fine. But will it be too late,whatsapp has a good market and most my friends use it. Live Profile to me is a failure. Samsung need to make sure that all phones now come with this pre installed like berries have with BBM if it wants any chance. BBM will still remain the king of chat as it's simple and works fantastically well (ex BB user), in the UK anyway most teens are never off BBM including my sister for solely that reason she doesn't want to move to another phone!
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I never used a BB but i know how the bum works. Someone has to make a replica of that or RIM has to release it to other phones (there was a rumor). Google has now something like Huddle (what also works fine) but not a lot of people use G+.
I think if google promotes Gtalk it will be used, everyone who uses android has Gtalk on it so there are users. Newer phones can even use video chat. even friends on iPhone use Gtalk.
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There to many to name name them all.
I never used a BB but i know how the bum works. Someone has to make a replica of that or RIM has to release it to other phones (there was a rumor). Google has now something like Huddle (what also works fine) but not a lot of people use G+.
I think if google promotes Gtalk it will be used, everyone who uses android has Gtalk on it so there are users. Newer phones can even use video chat. even friends on iPhone use Gtalk.
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RIM can make a killing by releasing BBM as a cross platform chat app. But it's the one thing that makes the blackberry a little unique.
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RIM can make a killing by releasing BBM as a cross platform chat app. But it's the one thing that makes the blackberry a little unique.
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I know if this happens you can declare the BB dead so many people want to switch to an android or iPhone but the only thing keeping them is the BBM.
commodoor said:
I know if this happens you can declare the BB dead so many people want to switch to an android or iPhone but the only thing keeping them is the BBM.
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Agreed. No matter how much you persuade one of the benefits of moving they'll always say but x y or z doesn't have bbm! Push email is widely available so that's not an issue unless the company require bes. Only QNX and how quickly Rim can implement a competitive phone os will keep them alive although the hardcore addicts won't mind whatever they have.
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Ohhhhh i can see this going down the pan. Bbm and whats app own mobile messaging. Buuuut we will see... btw hate the name! Sounds.... boring. Oh hey sarah add me on "chaton" loool!
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I figured out what's wrong with this app's name. "ChatOn" sounds like "shat on", which is not nice, no sir. No sir indeed. They'll have to change the name.
How about just "Samsung chat"?
We are having so many chat clients and it is getting redundant.
I hope we can get a universal chat client where every platform use them as default then we are good.
xsaintzx said:
We are having so many chat clients and it is getting redundant.
I hope we can get a universal chat client where every platform use them as default then we are good.
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Why not use gtalk every android phone has one. I saw it even default on bb.
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Why not use gtalk every android phone has one. I saw it even default on bb.
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Because you are not automatically logged in.
BBM runs in the background you dont have the option to "sign off" unless you uninstall bbm app.
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Because you are not automatically logged in.
BBM runs in the background you dont have the option to "sign off" unless you uninstall bbm app.
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This i didn't know. But even if android comes with something like that Iphone would never have something like it. Apple is gona release their own chat client and i don't think it would be available on BBM or Android same as the facetime.
So what i think their will never be a universal chat client and we always be using third party apps